A diary of two nights in the Kyiv metro, where residents are once again sheltering as Russia intensifies its attacks

According to Meduza, Kyiv residents are once again sheltering overnight in the city's metro stations as Russian air strikes intensify. The outlet's diary from a journalist who spent two nights underground describes families with tents, sleeping pads, and pets settling in after President Zelensky warned of a possible massive missile strike within forty-eight hours, following a ballistic missile strike on a weapons exhibition near Kyiv that killed eleven people and wounded a hundred. Meduza cites UN data showing about one thousand four hundred civilians killed and nearly eight thousand wounded across Ukraine over six months, with June marking the deadliest month since April twenty twenty-two. The Kyiv metro, used as a shelter since the war's early years, has again become a nightly refuge as strikes grow larger and more frequent.

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